Mexico, U.S. Seek Fugitive Banker Accused of Fraud in
Abaco Case

AP-Dow Jones News Service

Updated Oct. 27, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

MEXICO CITY -- With dogs and airport checkpoints, police in Mexico and the U.S. searched Sunday for a banker accused of defrauding investors out of $170 million. But the financier was nowhere to be found.

Mexican authorities sent photographs of Jorge Lankenau, who slipped away from house arrest just as police moved in to take him to jail, to the FBI and Interpol, hoping to catch the banker if he tried to leave Mexico.